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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a556-knutsford-to-bowdon-improvement-development-consent-order-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2269",
  "legislation_title": "The A556 (Knutsford to Bowdon Improvement) Development Consent Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a556-knutsford-to-bowdon-improvement-development-consent-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Implementation and maintenance of landscaping",
  "text": "(1) The authorised development must be landscaped in accordance with a landscaping scheme that has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, following consultation with the relevant planning authority.\n(2) The landscaping scheme must reflect the mitigation measures included in the environmental statement and set out details of all proposed hard and soft landscaping works, including—\n(a) location, number, species, size and planting density of any proposed planting;\n(b) cultivation, importing of materials and other operations to ensure plant establishment;\n(c) proposed finished ground levels;\n(d) hard surfacing materials;\n(e) vehicular and pedestrian access, parking and circulation areas;\n(f) details of existing trees to be retained, with measures for their protection during the construction period;\n(g) retained historic landscape features and proposals for restoration, where relevant; and\n(h) implementation timetables for all landscaping works.\n(3) All landscaping works must be carried out to a reasonable standard in accordance with the relevant recommendations of appropriate British Standards or other recognised codes of good practice.\n(4) The landscaping works must be carried out in accordance with implementation timetables referred to in sub-paragraph (2).\n(5) Any tree or shrub planted as part of the landscaping scheme that, within a period of two years after planting, dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, seriously diseased, must be replaced in the first available planting season with a specimen of the same species and size as that originally planted, unless the Secretary of State gives written consent to any variation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 18.9.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2269/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:05:01.521357+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}